POOL Samuel Tongue poetry workshop: Being Animal

Much of our inherited philosophy separates homo sapiens from the rest of the animal world. But this standpoint has far-reaching and deeply damaging implications for how we see ourselves within our environment.

This workshop will experiment with ways in which, through our chosen and multiple art forms, we might not simply 're-present' the world but try to practice critical and creative awareness of our animality within the binds of what Donna Haraway calls natureculture.

Samuel Tongue is a widely published poet and writer, and is poetry editor of the Glasgow Review of Books. His first collection Hauling-Out was published by Eyewear (2016); poems have featured in journals including Envoi, Magma, and Gutter, and the anthologies Be The First to Like This: New Scottish Poetry and Best British and Irish Poets 2016. He won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards in 2013, and teaches Religion, Literature, and Culture at the University of Glasgow.